Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Confirm Stripped-Down 2026 Tour

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH CONFIRM STRIPPED-DOWN 2026 TOUR   “CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH – PIANO & VOICE” TO PRESENT ALEC OUNSWORTH’S DISTINCTIVE BODY OF WORK IN ITS STARKEST FORM   NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE DATES GET UNDERWAY JANUARY 15, 2016 IN BOSTON, MA   TICKETS FOR ALL ANNOUNCED DATES ON SALE NOW   EXTREMELY LIMITED VINYL EDITION OF BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 1 – PIANO & VOICE LIVE AT SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS, RECORDED IN LONDON, TO BE AVAILABLE ONLINE AND AT SHOWS WHILE SUPPLIES LAST   EPIC WORLD TOUR CELEBRATING 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH RESUMES LATER THIS MONTH WITH EAGERLY AWAITED SHOWS IN JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will follow their hugely successful 20th anniversary full band world tour with a very special North American headline run offering a “more naked” perspective on singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth’s utterly original body of work. “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Piano & Voice” gets underway after a sold-out run in Europe on  January 15, 2026, in Boston, MA, and then visits intimate venues in major markets across the continent through mid-February. Tickets for all announced dates are on sale now. An extremely limited black and white splatter vinyl edition of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Bootleg Series Vol. 1 – Piano & Voice Live at Servant Jazz Quarters, recorded in London, will be available online and at shows while supplies last. For complete details and ticket availability, please see www.cyhsy.com/live.   “Essentially, this is an opportunity for me to put forward my songs for Clap Your Hands in their starkest form,” says Alec Ounsworth. “After having done shows in this form in Europe, this will be the first round of shows of this kind in the United States. Doing the material in this way has been a chance to connect with the work on an intimate and new (but familiar) level. Be ready for some raw emotion – precisely what I, for one, need at the moment. Please join me for these special, small shows.”

In the meantime, the milestone world tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s landmark self-titled debut album resumes later this month with a series of eagerly awaited headline dates in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The wide-ranging trek sees Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – currently comprising Ounsworth, Todd Erk (bass, synth), Jonas Oesterle (drums), and Ben Collins (guitar, keys, lights) – performing the classic 2005 album in its entirety. The band has already spent much of this past year celebrating Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with sold-out and ecstatically received shows across the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, France, and the United Kingdom.   # # #   CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - ON TOUR 2025-2026   “20 YEARS OF CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH …PERFORMING THE DEBUT ALBUM…” WORLD TOUR 2025   OCTOBER 31 – Osaka, Japan – Live House Anima   NOVEMBER 1 – Shibuya, Japan – Club Quattro 5 – Sydney, Australia – Metro Theatre 7 – Melbourne, Australia – Northcote Theatre 8 – Brisbane, Australia – The Triffid 11 – Auckland, New Zealand – The Tuning Fork # # #   “CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH – PIANO & VOICE” NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2026

JANUARY 2026 15 – Boston, MA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 16 – Brattleboro, VT – Stone Church 17 – Kingston, NY – Assembly 18 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge 24 – Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Ethical Society   FEBRUARY 2026 9 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent 11 – Seattle, WA – Woodlawn Hall 12 – Portland, OR – Old Church 14 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk 15 – Toronto, ON – Lula Lounge CONNECT WITH CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH CYHSY.COM| FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE